A rich but slightly odd teenager has various adventures with his older brother who leads him astray. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
The Informer AKA Jin shou zhi (1980) Chung Wang, Danny Lee, Hing-Yin Kam
Wang Chung plays a cop in charge of a rag-tag bunch of misfits who are after a drug runner. Read More »
Campus Man (1987) Ron Casden, John Dye, Steven Lyon, Morgan Fairchild
Todd Barret is an aspiring businessman. He’s got what it takes, but what he doesn’t have is enough money to stay in college. Read More »
Loaf and Camouflage AKA Loufa kai Parallagi (1984) Nicos Perakis, Nikos Kalogeropoulos, Giorgos Kimoulis, Takis Spiridakis
The film is the story of a group of soldiers, who, in the course of their compulsory Read More »
Near Death (1989) Frederick Wiseman
Renowned documentarian Frederick Wiseman profiles the doctors, nurses, physicians Read More »
The Big Red One (1980) Samuel Fuller, Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine
The story of a hardened army sergeant and four of his men, from their first fight Read More »
Heroes for Hire (1984) John Lloyd, Bruce Baron, Robert Marius, Jim Moss
Miami 1980, doctor transplants some sort of metal object into a patient arm. Read More »
All the Wrong Spies AKA Wo ai Ye Lai Xiang (1983) Teddy Robin Kwan, George Lam, Brigitte Lin
In Hong Kong, Circa 1940s, World War II, private detective Yoyo Read More »
The Phone Call (1989) Allan A. Goldstein, Michael Sarrazin, Linda Smith, Ron Lea
A married man calls the wrong number for phone-sex and winds up being stalked by a psychotic man. Read More »
The Fourth Power AKA Le 4ème pouvoir (1985) Serge Leroy, Philippe Noiret, Nicole Garcia, Roland Blanche
He, Yves Dorget, is a major reporter in a daily newspaper. She, Catherine Carré, is a TV news anchor. Read More »
Chronopolis (1982) Piotr Kamler, Michael Lonsdale
Weary immortals inhabit a metropolis in the sky and amuse themselves Read More »
High Frequency AKA Qualcuno in ascolto (1988) Faliero Rosati, Vincent Spano, Umberto Caglini, Anne Canovas
A boy who operates a ham radio and a man who works at a satellite relay station witness the same murder thousands Read More »
Notes on Love AKA Notater om kærligheden (1989) Jørgen Leth, Claus Nissen, Jan Nowicki, Stina Ekblad
Poet-filmmaker Jørgen Leth taps his own earliest inspirational veins by free-floating through Read More »
The Battle of Tagrift AKA Ma’rakat Taqraft (1981) Mahmoud Ayad Dreza, Khaled Mustafa Khushaim, Hamedah El Khogah, Ali Kadak, John Khogon
An epic war film about the battle of the Italian and Libyan armies. Read More »
The Step AKA Sapekhuri (1985) Aleksandre Rekhviashvili, Merab Ninidze, Irina Chichinadze, Levan Abashidze
Alexi leaves the house of his father and stepmother and rents an apartment. Read More »